Despite all the different dictionaries I have checked, the meanings of the word “desperate” vary. Here are two instances of desperate.

Can you wait till I get home?

Situation 2: Someone has no place to play, a friend

says: You can stay here for two days if you’re desperate. It can get a little more difficult.

Oxford Learners:’very sad and upset because

• of having little or no hope’ (MW):’very worried and angry because they don’t know how to deal with an unpleasant situation’ (Macmillan): ‘willing to
• do anything to change a very bad situation, and not caring about
• danger’ (Longman) Also, they are not violent, rash or dangerous themselves.

The apparently obvious solution is that they are

• ‘needing or wanting something very much’ (Oxford Learners / Macmillan / Cambridge)
• having a very great desire, need, etc. The seemingly obvious solution is that or they are… For examples

only in dictionary you would need to spell the words ‘desperate for’/equivalent to’ in them. Non one resembling the usage of my two examples, with a free-standing ‘desperate’.

Are some unorthodox usages I shouldn’t make much of or something the dictionaries failed to include (either as a separate meaning, or a distinct kind of usage)?

What are the best ideas for a modern afro-asia child?